Read all about it in @Nature!

Summer highlights vol 2: Teamed up with the @paulrschmidt lab once again, this time to work with @MarkCBitter1 for their paper demonstrating rapid shifts in genetic makeup in populations of fruit flies over VERY short time periods.

Research support by @RWGenome @GenomeAtlantic. Check it out in @royalsociety.

Understanding how population dynamics influence reproductive success is key to NARW recovery (and many other species!). While their dwindling numbers harm their chances, this work shows how their genetics offer a glimmer of hope, provided appropriate protection measures.

Summer highlights vol 1: I had the pleasure of working with @Crossman_C and @tfrasierDNA illustrating this piece for their remarkable work on inbreeding in North Atlantic Right Whales.

On a personal note, I’ve spent a lot of time chasing protons in vertebrates, so the dive into coral-algal biochemistry was a blast!.

Fascinating essay in @CurrentBiology by Mikhail Matz @heatshok which synthesizes the past 30 years of research on coral-algal symbiosis, and provides a novel framework to view this perhaps fraught relationship (think farmers and cows).

RT @Crossman_C: Excited to share our new paper on the impacts of inbreeding on North Atlantic right whales @RWGenom….

The International Hibernation Meeting @Hibernation2024 is happening now in beautiful Mont-Temblant, Quebec! Brynne Duffy and Jim Staples conceived the idea for this logo, and I was all too happy to illustrate it, featuring this fascinating mammal - the 13 lined ground squirrel.

RT @lab_schulte: Super pleased that my perspectives paper on the Fry Paradigm has now been published in the 50th anniversary edition of the….

Being a scientist-cartoonist ain’t gunna be easy, but someone’s gotta figure out novel ways of drawing farts.

I’m thrilled (and scared!) Rush Studio is now full-steam, but I’m grateful to have had a boss who several times in my career picked me up when I fell flat on my face, and carried me until I was able to find my feet.

Sometimes you don’t only meet your heroes, but you get to work with them, and they are more awe-inspiring than you imagined. For me one of those people was Trish Schulte @lab_schulte, who I had the honour to be her post doc first, and more recently, lab manager.

One month since I decided to invest 100% of my time into Rush Studio! It’s been a learning experience getting the operation running full speed, but it would have been impossible without a lot of support.

@RSocPublishing @colby_slezak